Doves of peace attacked Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square yesterday, in a scene that could have been snipped from Hitchcock’s The Birds, if The Birds had been filmed in Rome and had a totally different shooting script. One of the doves swooped in for the kill twice and had to be wrestled to the ground by an aide (a cardinal, maybe?). On a positive note, it’s the first time we’ve seen the sickly 84-year-old’s actual face in many years.